Eighteen stories, free to read.
Brooklyn memories, Castle Diner pieces, satire, memoir-inspired fiction, and dark comic turns from JK Savoy.
Hall of Poetic Justice
26 minBroke and crashing on a friend's floor, Kenny digs a thrift-store suit out of the wreckage to bluff his way back into 1974 corporate America.
Somewhere in BrooklynLights Out
23 minAfter months sleeping in a commune hallway, Park Slope's scrappiest mover finally lands a place of his own — a converted pantry he calls paradise.
Somewhere in BrooklynRemembering Margaret
17 minKenny's moving crew babysits a forgetful, fire-prone grande dame through the gutting of Brooklyn's grand Hotel Margaret.
Somewhere in BrooklynBrooklynite
3 minA cab driver's hunch on the Brooklyn Bridge convinces a corporate man to walk away and chase the borough's strange, take-charge magic.
Somewhere in BrooklynUs and Them
15 minTwo beat cops wander into a hippie coffee house, accept a free cup, and lose themselves in quadraphonic Pink Floyd.
Somewhere in BrooklynWhen Denim Surrendered to Silk
18 minFrom his Prospect Park writing bench, Kenny watches gentrification chain the doors on the Brooklyn that raised him.
Somewhere in BrooklynBall of Deception
25 min1968, the graveyard shift at a Jersey diner: a young night manager and a decorated WWI vet spar over coffee and the war calling them both.
Night BirdPoster Boys
24 minBehind the counter of a 24-hour greasy spoon, a paper-hatted dreamer spins protest-era 45s while a war hero rails at the hippies on his jukebox.
Night BirdBeyond the Light
21 minElectrocuted on the toilet, Denis wakes in a cosmic skybox where a booming voice claims to oversee everything that ever was.
And Then There's LilyA Walk in the Park
21 minA man frozen by his own overthinking shuffles across Central Park, arguing with the ghosts of mystics and Nietzsche in his head.
And Then There's LilyTwo Guys Meet Up at a Bar
28 minSoaked in a SoHo thunderstorm and egged on by a philosopher cabbie, a restless rich man resolves to walk away from Manhattan's whole charade.
And Then There's LilyThe Dancing Guppy
29 minIn a theocratic near-future, patrons of a SoHo bar bet on how long a fish lasts in a cocktail — until one skeptic refuses to play along.
And Then There's LilyThe Assman Chronicles
21 minA coke-fueled, tush-obsessed playboy and his mirror-loving girlfriend break down at a Jersey diner, right before fate lands its one-two punch.
In the WindThe Paving Cap Theory
21 minA bestselling loudmouth environmentalist goes live on a friend's vlog — not knowing the scorned host is loading both barrels on air.
In the WindOn Dasher
21 minTold by Dasher himself: a jaded reindeer's mutinous account of a boozy Santa and the glowing-nosed runt suddenly leading the team.
Short StackTyranny of the Ellipsis
8 minA gleefully unhinged polemic that puts the humble '…' on trial as literature's sneakiest little tyrant.
Short StackMutiny on High
22 minA burned-out flight instructor boards a Miami-bound jet and realizes his worst-ever student might just be in the cockpit.
Short StackCheap Date
4 minTwo friends argue the perfect record for romance — and a cheapskate's AA-meeting seduction unravels in a skipping, thunderstruck disaster.
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